Nate Cox

I’m on my third upgrade machine after getting my first printer years ago. Very rewarding hobby, much recommend.

Don’t let the feedback here get you down. Some of the comments are overly negative; you’ve got the start of a cool stand going, keep it up.

I think you could keep the basic design but add a pillar to support the back edge at the mid point and substantially reduce the risk.

I’d be worried about something (perhaps unintentionally) applying torque at the top of the device.

All good reasons to make a decision, I’m not trying to sway anyone in a direction.

I just feel bad when people see drama in a community and wonder if that thing is “safe”. I’ve seen this kind of thing many times before in other communities—PERL, Python, Ruby, Rust, etc—and it never seems to lead to sweeping changes the normal user would notice. It’s pretty safe to assume that day-to-day users of thing can just carry on if they don’t care about the community upset.

It’s probably wise to simply ignore the drama. Open source seems to invite this at the “top” for whatever reason, but for the casual user there is usually little to no impact.

Unless you’re trying to be a top contributor to nix, I would just carry on with normal usage and all the current drama will blow over.

Damn fine callout here, it definitely looks like the AMS there is loaded up with the green, orange, and pla support

The A1 is 256x256x256, which is pretty generous for an out of the box printer.

I personally use a Bambu P1S which has the same volume, and is larger than the Prusa MK3S I upgraded from.

The A1S is definitely smaller but still capable. I started on a Prusa Mini which is similarly sized and it worked great for me for a year or so before I upgraded.

Edit: I honestly would not start with a multi color unit. Wait a year and get some print experience under you first before you add that extra complexity.

The Bambu A1 (mini or full size) may be a good fit for you. Price point is there or below if you opt out of the multi color unit, and they are remarkably beginner friendly.

I kinda thought that was the way to go as well, but I need to find one that supports my giant troll hands. The ones I’ve tried in the past were too short I think so my hand ended up just on my desk at a weird angle.

The biggest difference between Nix and Guix is that Guix doesn’t support non-foss software, meaning you can’t use it as a package manager on other operating systems. I originally wanted to use Guix but use a Mac for work, so that became a deal breaker.

Nix is pretty awesome as a package manager, I’ve been happy with it after the truly unnecessary learning curve brutality. I do not imagine I would ever use the full OS though.

I have such mixed feelings about my Ergo, I really want to like it but I feel clumsy on it and it seems like the extra strain on my thumb will take a toll long term with that repetitive stress.

You don’t even need to quality it. Some people just feel the need to tear down others to make themselves feel good. It’s low self-esteem, misplaced onto whatever happens to be near them.

I think we’re all vulnerable to it, too. Part of being a good neighbor is checking yourself to see if you’re being a dick about your preferences, and just letting people enjoy what they enjoy (unless that thing is harming others; you know, common sense).

A software error that was quickly fixed, and that Bambu was transparent about and took accountability for, isn’t exactly “exerting control”.

Nobody is compelling you to like BambuLabs, but the hyperbolic argument here just seems silly.

I cancelled my mk4 order after a long wait that didn’t seem likely to end soon and got a P1S instead.

I was upgrading from a MK3S that I’d had for a couple of years, and I was all in on Prusa.

After using the P1S for a while now, it’s clear to me that Prusa sat on its hands for too long. The P1S is fantastic, involves virtually no setup, and gives me out-of-the-box prints better than my MK3S ever gave me even after months of fine tuning. I can’t imagine a world where Bambu doesn’t significantly erode Prusa’s market share.

Core-XY is the way to go, and I think to really compete Prusa is going to have to finally retire the i3 bed-slinger design and step into the future.

I want to support Prusa in principle, but they’re going to have to really step it up to get me away from my Bambu.

I thought lack of plugins was going to be a deal breaker and now I’m kind of on the “do we really need plugins at all” side.

Helix out of the box is really nice.

The rust library mentioned there doesn’t support system install paths for windows or macOS, it only uses XDG. I recommend the directories crate which properly supports Linux, Mac, and Windows.

https://github.com/dirs-dev/directories-rs